Author: Bennett Lee Setser

Levi Hayes was born 1 April 1763/64 at Simsbury, Connecticut.  Reverend Levi was a member of Captain Benjamin Mills' Company of Colonel Bezaleel Buzbee's regiment of the Connecticut State Troops.  He enlisted for nine months "…about the last of March or first of April 1780…" at the age of 16 years and served to the end of his enlistment.

Hays was a fifer in a Connecticut Regiment that raced toward West Point to protect it from impending attack.  He also participated in a skirmish with the enemy 'Cow Boys' at the border of a lawless region called the Neutral Ground, which was most of Westchester County, New York, and the southwestern corner of Connecticut.

Reverend Levi Hayes married Ruhamah Parson, 14 December 1786.  In the early years of the nineteenth century, he helped organize a religiously-oriented land company that headed into the wilderness of what was then the West.  He was involved in both the Scioto Land Company that founded Worthington, Ohio; and the Licking Land Company that founded nearby Granville, Ohio.  They settled Granville, Ohio, where he was the township treasurer and a deacon of his church.

Reverend Levi Hayes died 8 October 1847 at the age of 83 or 84 years, and was one of only a handful of Revolutionary War Veterans to be photographed.

 

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